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Stephen Carlton Clark (August 29, 1882 – September 17, 1960) was an American art collector, benefactor and a president of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. He was the son of Alfred Corning Clark and grandson of Edward Clark, who was a founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Stephen Clark graduated from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1903, and became a director of the Singer Manufacturing Company. He founded the Clark Foundation to further his philanthropies. He was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art from 1939 to 1946, and was a director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Stephen Clark Fund, established in 1960 with a bequest from his estate, supports scholarships and stipends given at the discretion of International House.
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